The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-04-28
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1t IL beginning to be understood that
the exercise and development Of natural
faculty are not hurtful, but healthful.
There has been much discussion Of late
In regard to the effect of study upon
girls. The evidence Is overwhelming
that where the hours are regular, as they
are at school and college, the work uni
form, and the food and habits good, the
health of girls is improved by steady
school work, and the enlarging influence
of school life. When Ill results follow
1t is in cases where late hours are per-
mitted, where food is irregular, INSULT
cient, or lacking In nutritive qualities,
Of candy and cake habitually.
has reduced the midday meal in all large
women of mature age, who breakfast
late, often forego II altogether. But
children require at least three meals, and
their luncheon, II 1t is not a dinner,
should be warm and nourishing. Some
private schools provide hot soup for such
Of the scholars as choose to take It, or
whose parents are willing to pay for It,
but even this is not always satisfactory
It is often thin and greasy, nauseating to
the taste and insufficient for the appe-
tite. Out of large number of test ex-
aminations made into the condition of
school lunch-boxes and baskets in New
York city, only about six per cent. seemed
to have received the careful supervision
of the mother; the rest contained Only q
piece of more or less stale cake, or cake
and cheese, or slice of bread and but
ter, or some crackers. 1t Is true that
school luncheon Is sometimes problem,
but so much the more need why the
mother herself should attend to It and
solve It.
The appetites Of some children are
capricious; though much less likely to
be SO If born Of healthy, wholesome
parents. But in any case they have to
be considered and their food adapted to
constitutional peculiarities. The rugged
German constitution is ascribed to daily
rations of bread and soup; the weakness
and dyspepsia 80 prevalent in America
to cake and ice cream. Food is largely
q matter of habit; appetite for special
articles of food is largely matter of
habit. Women have the power to create
and re-create habits and appetites, and
ought to make study of improving the
race in this way, even If their influence
and efforts are confined to their own
family. The results are not to be effected
by talking, but by doing; by conscien-
tiously acquiring the best methods and
putting them in practice. Good air, good
food and good water are the three great
agents in building up healthy human
bodies, and the house-mother should see
that her family-every member of it
are abundantly supplied with all three.
If the problem of the servant girl
compels women to attend to their own
business and make that of the public at
large secondary, good school luncheons
will reach q larger average; and the
qualities necessary to successful house.
hold management be more truly recog-
nized and appreciated. A religion en-
shrined in stone has ceased to be q living
principle; an author who has arrived at
the dignity of being illustrated Is not
read; SO housewifery, which is every
where put into print, was never at lower
ebb, never before so much decorative
sham, 80 little reality.
Foreign service has largely aided in
bringing this about. 1t has lowered the
tone of the housework in which our
grandmothers took pride. 1t has made
It "menial." Happy the community,
happy the household, where the minis
trations of wife and mother preserve its
serenity unbroken and create q sweet
and wholesome atmosphere in which all
the virtues live and flourish. Men
do not sufficiently prize this in
fuence; at least 1t often seems as If
they did not. But this is not q reason
for sighting our obligations, or neglect
ing our duty. Once in summer walk
I CHANGED upon an obscure spot so shut
in from outward observation that hardly
the SUMS rays could penetrate through
the LEAKAGE. Yet here, down in quiet
dell, it was thickest, most varied, most
beautiful. A little stream trickled over
its messy bed and ferns grew in profu-
sion ON its banks, delicate flowers lent
their color and their sweetness, and Alto
gether made picture which always lives
In my memory. But the beauty Of i. all
was that it was content to live its ex-
quisite life as part of Gods world, with
out being put on exhibition, with no one
to sing its praises, such that if I or any
one should go that way it will be still
there, fresher, lovelier than ever, though
no human being had since then set his
eyes upon it, or looking had failed to
discover any attraction in its gentleness
and obscurity. JENNY JUNE.